Friday, February 20, 2009

I had an interview today for admission to one of God's own institutes. It was awesome. I believe that the interview panel had one of the three notions about me - a) This guy is greatb) This guy is a dudc) It doesn't matterI would wish that it was the first one, though most likely it was the last one. The reason for my feeling like this was that the interview was almost a cakewalk.

Coming to the GD, it was a total fish market. We were given a small write up on how Indian engineers were all going for software jobs instead of working on their core areas. This was causing a loss to the country. We had to discuss on this after 5 minutes of thinking time. The time given to discuss was 15 minutes. I opened the GD with a terrific (yes, I am not modest! :-)) structure but it was lost in the catfight that ensued. People just tried to throw whatever points they had thought during the thinking time without really trying to reach any conclusion. I made a couple of good points in middle stages of the GD and was pretty much satisfied with my performance. Others, I would leave it to God - people were speaking even three at a time. Finally the panel signalled to stop and the GD was over.

For the interview I was the first person on the list. There were 2 panelists - lets call them P1 and P2. I entered and was asked for the certis by P1.

P1: Where are your mark sheets?Me: Sir, they are there.

P1: Where?Me: (Reach across to my folder, take it out from the side pocket and hand it over)

P1: You put all your unimportant certi in front. It seems as if you don't give any importance to acads.Me: (smiling) No, sir. It is not like that. The mark sheet was not fitting into the leaves.